Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 242

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6568

Shelfmark:

MS Or 242

Title:

al-Juzʼ al-thānī wa-al-ʻishrūn

Date:

between 1750 and 1850?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 27 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 238 x 162 (137 x 85) mm, bound to 245 x 170 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from caption title in headpiece (f. 1v).
Layout: 8 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
Decoration: Polychrome (blue, green) and gold illuminated headpiece (f. 1v). Textblock is border-ruled in gold. Text divisions marked in gold in the margin. Sūrah titles in gold ink. Gold roundels mark verse endings.
Shelfmark: MS Or 242.
Origin: Item is undated. Probably copied in the mid-18th to mid-19th century.
One volume of a Qur'ān set, of which RBML holds five volumes under separate shelfmarks; See also MSS Or. 239, 240, 241, and 243.

Keyword:

full covers

blind-tooled (decoration)

Islamic bindings

codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

envelope flaps (features)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14230789

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14230789_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library